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Title

Weisenstern patent notebook (#27)

Catalog Number

102723977

Type

Text

Date

1959-05-19

Author

Weisenstern, Mark

Biographical Notes

Mark Weisenstern joined Fairchild in mid-1959. He was the catalyst for encouraging other Fairchild research employees (David Allison, David James, and Lionel Kattner) to leave Fairchild to co-found Signetics Corporation to develop integrated circuits in 1961.

Publisher

Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation

Identifying Numbers

Document number

27

Extent

Three entries over 3 pages.

Dimensions

12 x 10 inches

Description

This volume contains three entries; two versions of a method for making ohmic contact to silicon with contact geometry control (pp.1-2); method for packaging semiconductor devices (p.3).; and four sheets with hand colored drawings showing this approach are loosely inserted on page 5.